Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
THE CHILDREN.
Talk NTH the Little Ones
~ Matters Of Interest
to Them.
HABITS EASILY FORMED.
,rss UDon the Importance Of Weakness
~ in Dress-Hints for the Boys
or Their Mothers.
Dress,

r,;s is subject which unfortunately
Ives r greater amount of considera-
than the far more important one of
fhsvior; and it often happens that the
STRESSED people behave the worst.
ba comfortably, nicely and appro-
:,tely dressed is always desirable /;
|, how many girls and boys-girls es-
.;aIlv-are satisfied with this? How
onv tears have been shed over SO
;,iag thing as the buttons on new
" Of gloves!
! Dovs, as a general thing, hate gloves
+ nd ere not partial to new clothes; their
Imotation with regard to dress, lies
i; the other way. They need to be
! Il that carclessness of attire and
|Ejnly face and hands are q disrespect
those about them, and that there is
4 real necessity for their nails to be
|roken and dirty. They are not tree
! mbing animals, except on occasion,
s.ler were they made to hurrow in
% ground; and if hands arc to be left
|uwashcd because they get dirty again
! sht away" dinner should be left I'M
ben because they get hungry again
Eght away.
Perfect neatness goes long way
|Ovarl making any one we'll dressed,
|yen with shabby coat Or bonnet: but
; is impossible to be thoroughly we'll
ressed without being neat. 1 have
cen lady $50 called) with diamond
(ings on very dirty fingers; but people
reclaimed at the fingers more than they
llmirel the rings. An old, infirm man
kss once refused admission into an in.
|itution, where his last days would
! have been made comfortable, on the
|yround that he was too dirty to be re-
[eiyed. Should not this be q lesson te
! II careless young people? All his life
ong he had probably been unwilling te
: AXE the trouble to keep himself de
|tenslv in order, and now he was reap
(ng the fruits of his selfish Incidence.
The Bible speaks of "modest ap
parcel" "the robe of righteousness,
feet shod with the preparation Of the
gospel Of peace, "the ornament of (
t.eek and quiet spirit" rather than O
gid Or pearls or costly array" A
Fg!al bride devoted the gift of a city, ,
hlgnifcent diamond necklace, to til,
building of a hospital, and this deed O
hers will never he forgotten so long a!
Fhe hospital stands. Few can make +,
Eift like this; but almost every one cal
sacrifice some vanity of dress for the
benefit of the suffering.
1t must be remembered, though, tina
Ft is not only the rich who are tempted
BY the pomps and vanities of the world
put the poor as we'll; and the teacher'
careful explanation of the Sunday
school lesson is often lost by poor
neanly-dressed Hattie because she wa
counting the feathers in Daisy's stylish
bat Or the buttons on her gloves
Daisy herself may not have been think
ing Of them at all, because she was uset
to them; but she remembered, per
maps, the instructive words and got thu
blessing that Hattie missed. Som,
Jay she may come to see the beauty o
laying aside her costly attire for thu
benefit Of others, as the young Empress
did the diamond necklace.
The thoughtful and unsclfsh chile
Will not complain because she has to g
without new hat or coat when she re
members her mothers thin shawl or he1
'athers threadbare garments, in spite
OS the other girls laugh at her old
'aSAoned dress; and those who wea
shabby clothes from a sense Of dut,
should know the beautiful lines:
Christ shall give thee soon to wear
garments beautiful and fair,
White robes of glorious majesty"
-g1fistian Weekly.
HntS for tie Boys or Their Mothers.